Louis Rukeyser
(1933-2006)
May 2, 2006 Louis Rukeyser, a
best-selling author, columnist, lecturer and television host who
delivered pun-filled, commonsense commentary on complicated
business and economic news, died today.
He was 73.
Rukeyser died at his home in Greenwich after a long battle with
multiple myeloma, a rare bone marrow cancer.
As host of Wall $treet Week With Louis Rukeyser on public TV
from 1970 until 2002, Rukeyser took a wry approach to the ups and
downs in the marketplace and urged guests to avoid jargon. He
brought finance and economics to ordinary viewers and investors,
and was rewarded with the largest audience in the history of
financial journalism.
Once while answering a viewer's letter on investing in a
hairpiece manufacturer, he said, "If all your money seems to be
hair today and gone tomorrow, we'll try to make it grow by giving
you the bald facts on how to get your investments toupee."
I was fortunate
enough to see him in person at a financial forum he presented at
the 5th Avenue Theatre. He made Economics and investing
fun. I miss him.
| "Life is not
measured by the number of breaths we take but by the
moments that take our breath away." |
At Annie's request...
Annie and I still finish
one another's sentences. It makes one consider the
possibility of ESP. Our reactions to the media and to words
in general run along the same tracks. Our mental engines
often collide with happy effect. (In late April we were
watching an episode of Alias and Will made an especially
poignant statement to Sidney along the lines of, "I feel safe
because I know you are out there fighting the bad guys." I
said, "That's a great line. That's a Heinlein!" Annie
understood exactly what I meant.)
Annie has asked that I repeat the
quotes and brief items I include on the Table of Contents page to
this journal. She thinks they should be a permanent part of
it and not disappear the next month. So, in obedience to
her, and concurring with her wisdom...
From January '06:
"The secret formula of the saints: When I am in
the cellar of affliction, I look for the Lord's choicest wines."
— Samuel Rutherford
From February '06:
"Sands of Time"
Final song
from the musical Kismet
Princes come, Princes go,
An hour of pomp and show they know;
Princes come and over the sands,
And over the sands of time they go.
Wise men come,
Ever promising the riddle of life to know,
Wise men come, Ah, But over the sands.
The silent sands of time they go
Lovers come, Lovers go.
And all that there is to know
Lovers know;
Only lovers know.
From
April '06:
"The sort of guardian you can hire is worth about as much as
the sort of wife you can buy."
— Robert A. Heinlein in Space Cadet (1948)
I note that Jesus said the same:
"I am
the good shepherd. The good shepherd lays down his life for the
sheep. The hired hand is not the shepherd who owns the sheep. So
when he sees the wolf coming, he abandons the sheep and runs away.
Then the wolf attacks the flock and scatters it. The man runs away
because he is a hired hand and cares nothing for the sheep."
John 10:11-13 NIV
BCS (and Annie)
Triumph with Les Misérables
I don't suspect I will ever see a high school performance that will compare with the 2006 BCS production
of Les Misérables.
It was THE fitting climax to the teaching and directing career
of Mr. Lowell Hagan who retires this June.
 Best
of all, I enjoyed many bus rides with Annie who commuted from SPU
for most of May to bolster an under-staffed BCS stage crew.
Her small crew managed to keep the props and the elaborate
articulating structure under control that served as gate, prison,
house, inn, barricades, and bridge. Illness among the crew
made her contribution even the more crucial and providential. Many
of the actor/singers were nominated for awards by a local arts
organization. Surely the stage crew deserves one too. This
was a huge volunteer labor of love for Annie which cut into all
her SPU activities (which she also loves) and is yet another
reflection of her servant's heart. |
Nathanael Finishes Another Sports Season
Congratulations to the 2006 Boys Track team. They earned the Les
Schwab State Academic Championship with a compiled first semester
team grade point average of 3.54. (There are 29 boys on the track
team this spring.) While we compete on the track, it is nice to
have this recognition of their studies. ~ Their proud
head coach, Ed Sloan
Nate ran well at the close of the season with PRs in the 1600m
(4:51) and the 800m (2:04). His amazing second lap in the
Emerald City League prelims will be long remembered. He
moved from 7th to 1st on the back stretch and held off the pack,
including
Will Moseley the eventual State 800m champ (left
above). Alas, Nate came up short in the Tri-District finals.
Kevin Li, the top sprinter for BCS, pulled up lame and could not
run in the 4x400m relay finals. Substituting the alternate
caused BCS to finish 6th, one place out of a trip to State.
Nathanael took the result very well -- much better than his dad.
 On
the other hand, I went to State at Eastern Washington State
University in Cheney as the photographer for
Northwest Runner Magazine
and got a track-side seat on the action. I took the Thursday
night Greyhound bus at 11:30PM and arrived in Cheney at 4:30AM on
Friday morning, May 25th. I ate and stayed with the BCS team
for free and their coaches gave me a $100 thank you gift for all
my work at www.Bellevue1.net.
I am now a recognized sports photographer. And I got some
amazing pictures.
And the
BCS girls took 4th in State and brought home a trophy
while the guys took 8th.
From Les Mis
On My Own
(Eponine's
song is a heartbreaker)
And now I'm all alone again
Nowhere to turn, no one to go to
Without a home without a friend
Without a face to say hello to
And now the night is near
I can make believe he's here
Sometimes I walk alone at night
When everybody else is sleeping
I think of him and I'm happy
With the company I'm keeping
The city goes to bed
And I can live inside my head
On my own
Pretending he's beside me
All alone
I walk with him till morning
Without him
I feel his arms around me
And when I lose my way I close my eyes
And he has found me
In the rain the pavement shines like silver
All the lights are misty in the river
In the darkness, the trees are full of starlight
And all I see is him and me forever and forever
And I know it's only in my mind
That I'm talking to myself and not to him
And although I know that he is blind
Still I say, there's a way for us
I love him
But when the night is over
He is gone
The river's just a river
Without him
The world around me changes
The trees are bare and everywhere
The streets are full of strangers
I love him
But every day I'm learning
All my life
I've only been pretending
Without me
His world would go on turning
A world that's full of happiness
That I have never known
I love him
I love him
I love him
But only on my own.
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I have this Greek phrase as my Desktop
wallpaper in stark white on a black screen. It is the first
part of 1 Peter 3:15. "sanctify Christ as Lord in your
hearts." This phrase precedes the oft quoted, "always being
ready to make a defense to everyone who asks you to give an
account for the hope that is in you, yet with gentleness and
reverence;" —
yet the first phrase is the key to the second. So what does
it mean to "sanctify Christ as Lord in your hearts"? I love the way Barnes' Notes describes the answer.
The sense in the
passage before us is, "In your hearts, or in the affections of the
soul, regard the Lord God as holy, and act toward him with that
confidence which a proper respect for one so great and so holy
demands. In the midst of dangers, be not intimidated; dread not
what man can do, but evince proper reliance on a holy God, and
flee to him with the confidence which is due to one so glorious."
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